Xinjiang conflict

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The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突; pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkestan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino–East Turkestan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan. It is centred around the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group who constitute a plurality (or 'relative majority') of the region's population. In the 1930s, armed conflicts known as the Xinjiang Wars broke out during the Warlord Era of the Republic of China and the Chinese Civil War, beginning with the Kumul Rebellion which saw the establishment of the First East Turkestan Republic in 1933 as well as its destruction in 1934. The Second East Turkestan Republic was later founded in 1944 with the support of the Soviet Union in the wake of the Ili Rebellion. Many of the Turkic peoples in Ili had close ties with the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union....

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